ABSTRACT
This chapter explores how consolation is found through tying the dead to the land and to the home. The consolationscapes created through reburials happen in response to a crisis much greater than that of an individual death. Beyond the grief and need for consolation that the death of a loved one entails, reburials are an answer to the collective trauma that is civil war. Surrounding Lily's compound is the wider landscape, the bush, which in northern Uganda has become forever associated with its history of insurgency and guerrilla warfare. In Acholi, the relative safety of the home compound often stands in contrast to the surrounding landscape. When actively reforming the landscape, for example through reburial, people create landscapes that facilitate consolation. When the home compound is infused with the remains of the dead and the landscape is moulded around the relationship between the living and the dead, the dead might pose a threat to the well-being of their living relations.
